Plan a Round The World Trip

Round the World Trip Planner

Welcome to Hop Around the World. The travel guide created for the benefit of the traveller to help with planning your travels Round The World or Gap Year. Whether you are planning an amazing adventure backpacking or Gap Year working and volunteering projects, you will find this guide useful. The different sections dwell on creating a Travel Itinerary, Around the World Air Tickets, Travel Route Around the World, Adventure Tours, Transport Overland, Travel Insurance, Travel Health, Safety in travelling, Travel Money management, Travel Gear, Accommodation and general advice. This website has been designed to arm you with as much information and help required to plan an amazing adventure.

The lust to travel comes to all of us at some point in our lives. Are
you toying with the idea to go on an adventure around the world or have
you made that important decision already? In any case, you have come to
the right place to help you along on your journey.

It does not really matter if one has no rational reason for the lust to
travel. Sometimes wanderlust is just there in the blood waiting for its
time and once it is unleashed, there is no going back. For some it is a
journey to find themselves. The world is your oyster and the beauty of
this world in both nature and human life needs to be discovered – by
you! For this, one thing is sure, you have to break the chains that
hold you down in that 'rat race'. Embarking on such an adventure will
require some energy to make it all happen. Leaving the rat race is
something you have to crawl out of. You will have to struggle out of
it, the longer you leave it, the harder the breakout. However breaking
free from the shackles of the rat race will bring immense rewards and
memories to last a lifetime, with tales of a plenty.

Create the opportunity to embark on your travels, for example it may be
your Gap Year. Working full time? You may find that your company can
grant you a sabbatical leave for six months or a year. Or, you may just
have to quit your job -as horrific as this sounds, you will be
surprised the number of people who actually do!

Now you have created this once in a lifetime opportunity to
travel........what do you do now? Plan your round the world adventure! This website can
help, by proposing a framework to thoroughly plan your round the world
adventure, equipping yourself with the necessary knowledge and tools to
ensure that this once in a lifetime experience is one to remember! This
website also aims to equip the virgin traveller, with the necessary
mindset to avoid the pitfalls and calamities that can occur on a round the world trip.

So lets get started on planning this round the world adventure........

Step 1 - Round the World Itinerary
Planning – Make a plan of the list of cities, continents and places of
interest that you wish to travel to. Plan activities and areas of
exploration for the cities / continents you want to include on your
round the world trip. Ask yourself what type of things you like to do
whilst on holiday; do you like outdoor adventure (trekking, mountain
climbing, white water rafting, sky diving, scuba diving etc)? Do you
prefer to have amenities around you and maybe prefer some luxury (5*
resorts, fine dining etc)? Are you more of a nature person (exploring
natural wonders such as caves, waterfalls, volcanoes, jungles etc)? Or
prefer exploring cities (museums, monuments, attractions, art
galleries, architecture etc)?

Add these activities/choices in your planned worldwide locations. This planning step
should generate a broad list of destinations and activities which will
form the basis of a round
the world itinerary. The key in your plan is to be as general as possible
as your round the world flight choices (Step 2) will narrow the itinerary down to
something more specific. It maybe helpful to rank the items in
your planned itinerary in terms of “I have to do it”, “I'd like to do
it”, “that would be nice” to aid flight planning.

Step 2 – Flights (Plan Your Route) - Armed with a itinerary
plan (created in step 1) you will first need to translate this into round the world flights
to accommodate the destinations defined in step 1. Plan your route and
decide where you would like to go and choose the appropriate Flights
and Round
The World tickets to satisfy the itinerary. Both Stages (intinerary plan, round the wold flight planning) &
are intertwined and it will be at this stage where your plan
will become more and more refined based upon the nature of the flight
tickets you choose to book. You may find some destinations in your
itinerary plan are not practical due to the round the world airline ticket. However
other destinations and possibilities may / will present themselves that
were not in your original plan (itinerary).

Step 4 - Budget Planning - Do the MATHS, define and plan
your budget (after you have established the cost of the round the world
ticket) and explore how far it can go. Remember you will have to spend
on travel equipment, vaccinations, medications and insurance. How far
will your budget go to achieve items in step 1 and 2 and 3 ? Factor in
an approximate cost of dining, accommodation, local and regional travel
and the cost of carrying out your activities and excursions. It may be
a good idea to tabulate into a spreadsheet which will help to calculate
approximate daily costs for these things. This will give you a general
idea if you will need to work whist on this adventure to subsidise
further travel.

Step 6 - Bon Voyage – Start
to tie up loose ends. Do not miss that flight (or others on
your round the world ticket)! Some people like to document
travels. Protect
your online identity (personal information) when using internet
cafes and look after yourself – stay safe! We wish you the
best. Please let others know if this website was of help in planning your round the world trip.